Things are looking up at these Bay Area businesses -- at least according to their employees.

Glassdoor found the San Francisco Bay Area companies with the best business outlook by asking users, "in the next six months, do you believe your company's business will perform better, worse, or remain the same?" To be eligible for the report, companies had to have at least 30 business outlook ratings per company over the past three months.

Autodesk (pictured) took the No. 15 spot, with 52 percent of employees expecting business to improve, 40 percent expecting it to stay the same, and 7 percent expecting it to get worse. The San Rafael-based software company is led by Carl Bass.

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Things are looking up at these Bay Area businesses -- at least...

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Respondents expecting business to get better: 54 percent

Respondents expecting business to stay the same: 31 percent

Respondents expecting business to get worse: 15 percent

Brad Smith (pictured) is president and chief executive of the Mountain View-based software company. Smith received a 91 percent approval rating on Glassdoor.